It seems that Hollywood is starting to catch on to what many viewers already know: Some of the best shows on TV are not on a network; they're streaming over your internet connection. Shows such as House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black from Netflix have been capturing people's imagination for years, although major awards have often eluded them. But in the first months of 2015, one announcement after another pointed toward a sort of streaming content renaissance.

Splice Machine, provider of the only Hadoop RDBMS, announced that its real-time relational database management system is now available as a public beta. The Splice Machine database enables companies to replace traditional RDBMS systems. A full-featured, transactional SQL database on Hadoop, Splice Machine moves Hadoop beyond its batch analytics heritage to power operational applications and real-time analytics.

Splice Machine provides customers with a next-generation database platform that combines the scale-out technology of Hadoop, the distributed real-time computing power of HBase, and the full features of an RDBMS, including ANSI SQL and ACID transactions. Splice Machine's scale-out database enables customers to power applications and operational analytics that support real-time, interactive queries on data updated in real-time.